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Social media risks and solutions can be nuanced
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Listen to “Facebook’s moderators can’t please everyone” on Spreaker. Listen to Larry Magid’s ConnectSafely Report for CBS News on Facebook...
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Facebook not alone in embrace of ‘metaverse’
This post first appeared in the Mercury News by Larry Magid As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Facebook has renamed itself Meta. Some people thought that was in response to the company’s recent troubles, but...
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Computing Has Gone Full Circle, and It’s Time to Go Back a Bit
By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Listen to “Computing Has Gone Full Circle, and It’s Time to Go Back a Bit” on Spreaker. With a little help from John Lennon, Larry makes the...
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Smartphones are often cluttered with too many apps
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News In last week’s column, I wrote about how today’s cloud computing is reminiscent of yesteryear’s mainframes in both positive and negative...
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Tesla’s full self-driving is promising but far from ready
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News As a Silicon Valley resident, I’m used to seeing autonomous cars from Waymo, Nuro and other companies being tested on local roads by...
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Larry Magid: How to monitor oxygen levels while awake or sleeping
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News This post first appeared in the Mercury News If you’ve had a checkup, a medical professional may have clipped a device to your finger to...
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Apple’s Newton MessagePad It’s Hardly as Smart as Its Namesake (1993 review)
August 19, 1993 by Lawrence J. Magid (c)1993 Los Angeles Times Syndicate It seems as if everyone here in Silicon Valley is salivating over the new Apple Newton MessagePad. Not me. After spending...
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Electric and autonomous vehicles showcased at CES
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News For many years, I spent the first week of January in Las Vegas at the giant Consumer Electronics Show but this year, I’m covering it from...
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Windows 11 is a modest improvement
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News In 2015, a Microsoft employee, according to Forbes, told a conference that “Windows 10 is the last version of Windows,” implying that the...
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Social media can contribute to despair about war but also provide relief
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Like many people, I’ve spent a lot of time in front of my phone, computer and TV, focused on the war in Ukraine. On some TV news programs,...
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I had hoped to review AT&T Fiber but having trouble getting it installed
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News I had hoped that today’s column would be a review of AT&T fiber high-speed internet, which has recently become available where I live....
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Saving energy on tech use for Earth Day
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News My first column about Earth Day appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer in April 1970 to mark the very first Earth Day. I titled it “Be Careful...
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Unused apps can impact smartphone storage, performance and security
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News I’m old enough to remember those Black Flag commercials from the early ’80s with the slogan “Roaches check in, but they don’t check out.”...
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How to delete what Google knows about you
by Larry Magid This post is adapted from one that appeared in the Mercury News Like complaining about the weather, a lot of people like to complain about how Google impacts their privacy but, unlike...
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Is There a Relationship Between Tech Use and Gun Violence?
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News I was thinking about writing a column about the “tech angle” of the Buffalo shooting but wound up changing subjects at the last minute....
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Staying connected (or not) during summer travel
by Larry Magid If you’re planning a summer trip, you need to do more than just figure out a way to pay for your ever increasing airline tickets, hope your flights aren’t cancelled, take out a second...
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Google’s back in the game with its new Pixel Tablet
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News I was in the room in 2010 when Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPad, and ever since then, Apple has pretty much dominated the tablet market....
View ArticleBacking-up is not hard to do
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News The most tragic consequence of the recent Maui fires is, of course, loss of life. There was also horrific property loss. What you don’t hear...
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Apple unveils new iPhones, ditches Lightning connector
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News As it does every year around this time, Apple, on Tuesday, announced new products, including its iPhone 15 models and updates to its Apple...
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